"Captain Reyan?" she asked, her typical Klingon deameanor
presenting the statement as more of a demand than a question

"I am
Captain Reyan - may I ask whom I have the honour of addressing?" Reyan
asked

"I am Commander Veltia of the IKS K'Tal - my ship is, or rather
was on patrol near the Celendi system - it is because of this that I have
contacted you. Colonel Delorin advised me that your ship is heading for the
Celendi system, and ordered that I send you the data that my ship collected
whilst in the area" she stated

"I wish you luck,
Captain - strange things have been happening in that region - I hear many ships
have entered, yet few have returned", she took a deep breath before
continuing

"Dugh, Celendi Nebula - maQmIgh" Veltia muttered - Reyan
paused, wondering if he should ask her what she had just said, but decided to
press that particular matter later

"That's exactly why we're going there,
Commander - it would seem that the Celendi Nebula has a lot to answer for"

"That it does Captain - Qapla!" Commander Veltia bellowed, before the
viewscreen reverted back to it's usual view of the starfield ahead

"So,
what did she say, when she reverted to speaking in Klingon?" Reyan
asked

"The closest translation would be - Be vigilant, the Celendi
nebula shows the signs of a coming evil Commander Weist stated, hovering
near the science station

"Nice enterance Commander - how long were you
stood there" Reyan asked

"Long enough to be able to decipher Commander
Veltia's warning" she replied

"I see I'm going to have be far more
vilgilant" Reyan stated

Renee didn't appear to hear him

"She may
have a point you know" she stated

"About the Celendi nebula?" Reyan
asked

"Yes - the Klingon's are far more familiar with it than Starfleet,
since it is closer to their space - and I know of very few things that
spook Klingons, but that Nebula is one of those things" she replied

"I
think it's time we called a meeting of the senior staff - if this Nebula is
enough to give the Klingon's pause, I want my staff to know what it is we're
facing"

"Agreed" Renee replied

"Please access all know records of
the Nebula, Commander - cross reference them with the data that Commander Veltia
is sending, and advise all senior staff that we'll meet in one hour to discuss
our mission"

"Aye Sir" Renee replied, heading back toward the
turbolift

"Oh - and Commander - next time you talk with Colonel Delorin,
thank him for putting us in touch with Commander Veltia" Reyan stated,
smiling

Renee returned the smile, before stepping into the turbolift

Posted by: Renee Weist Sep 12 2006, 10:11 PM

Renee had returned to the bridge just in time to catch the tail end of
Commander Veltia of the IKS K'Tal and Reyan conversation. She stood in back, by
the science console, and listened. When it was concluded, Reyan asked what it
was she said, in Klingon, near the end.

"The closest translation would be
- Be vigilant, the Celendi nebula shows the signs of a coming evil,"
Renee stated.

"Nice enterance Commander - how long were you stood there"
Reyan asked

"Long enough to be able to decipher Commander Veltia's
warning" she replied "She may have a point you know."

"About the Celendi
nebula?" Reyan asked

"Yes - the Klingon's are far more familiar with it
than Starfleet, since it is closer to their space - and I know of very few
things that spook Klingons, but that Nebula is one of those things" she
replied

"I think it's time we called a meeting of the senior staff - if
this Nebula is enough to give the Klingon's pause, I want my staff to know what
it is we're facing"

"Agreed" Renee replied

"Please access all know
records of the Nebula, Commander - cross reference them with the data that
Commander Veltia is sending, and advise all senior staff that we'll meet in one
hour to discuss our mission"

"Aye Sir" Renee replied, heading back
toward the turbolift

"Oh - and Commander - next time you talk with
Colonel Delorin, thank him for putting us in touch with Commander Veltia" Reyan
stated, smiling

Renee returned the smile, before stepping into the
turbolift. she headed for her office on deck two, and entered. She began
retrieving all known informations about the system, and then set to cross
referencing it to what the Commander had sent. While that was cumpouting, Renee
made the announcement.

[Senior staff meeting in the conference room in
one hour. All departments heads will attend. Commander Weist,
out]

She was really sort of glad about
the meeting. There were some members of the senior staff she had not yet hand
the chance to meet. This would be the prime opertunity. The information the
Commander had sent likened the nebula to a death shroud. Several ships had been
noted entering the nebula, but far to few escaped it, and none as intact as when
they went in. Little was known, becuase of dysfunction of the ships abilities ot
record inside the nebula, and many crew were as confused as to what actually had
happened in there as well. Short term memory loss, whether by choice or by
design, had been attributed to the fact, but Renee was not so sure either was
the correct cause.

Her thoughts wandered to her mate. He looked after her
even when he was not present to do so. His reach was far, and his strength in
the Empire staggering. But that was not what Renee loved about him. Sure she
loved the fact he was a Warrior through and through, but she also loved the
gentle side of himself he showed only to her. His love and tenderness knew no
bounds, and Renee returned it in kind.

Posted by: Jules Davey Sep 14 2006, 05:55 AM

The hums and buzzes around her had a gentle, soothing effect on Jules. She
looked at the console before her, pleased to see that the problems she had
picked up before had been sorted out and everything was working within the
necessary parameters and she smiled.

The message from Commander Veltia
had been interesting, and even now Jules was thinking how she could boost the
sensor arrays. She smiled as she thought about eh sensor arrays the ship had.
The Nova was one of the most highly equipped ships in the fleet for scientific
investigation. This would be right up their street.. The sensors were second to
none and Jules knew they would have no problem getting the readings they
wanted.

Or at least she hoped so. She turned, calibrating the main sensor
array and going over the latest system analysis data. Smiling, she turned to the
front, catching the Captain glancing across at her. She smiled shyly, and turned
once more, knocking her recently healed hand and grimacing. It was still very
tender, and even though the EMH had done a good job on it, Jules was going to
have a few sessions of physiotherapy to get it back to normal, but that didn’t
stop it from hurting.

She held it close as she ran some more diagnostics,
making sure that all the systems were responding and running as required. She
frowned, there was still a slight power fluctuation on deck six, but nothing to
concern her, an operations team could deal with it.

Tapping her commbadge
she opened a channel.

Lieutenant Commander Davey to Chief Hin’dal, there’s still
a power fluctuation on deck six Chief. Section Alpha Charlie seven to Alpha
Charlie nine.
She informed
him.

Aye Commander,
I’ll go and check it out. Hin’dal out.
He replied and Jules smiled, glad to have such a capable
department.

“Problem?” The Captain asked, and she turned back,
smiling.

“No Sir, well nothing too serious. Just another power
fluctuation. It’ll be sorted soon.” She smiled at him. Noticing he had nice
eyes. Jules had a thing for eyes. ‘The doorways to the soul’ she had once heard
them called, and that was so true. She quickly pulled her gaze from his and
looked at her console. Her hand still cradled close to her body.

Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Sep 16 2006, 03:33 AM

Sas smiled. "And not a moment too soon." She said glad to be leaving
spacedock. "Should we get to the Bridge or do you have any lunch plans?" The
Trill asked.

"I think it would be wise to get to the Bridge. I wouldn't
want to miss the Pulsar's first departure," Tekari replied, but then stopped. He
nodded to Sashela's request, but for a later date, "lunch."

Soon, the two
had entered the Bridge, and the Pulsar was on its way.

They watched the
viewscreen and marvelled at the stars as the Pulsar shot forth at rapid speed
into warp drive. One day we will invent a better method of travel! Sas thought
as she leaned closer to the El Aurian. "I wish to apologise for my lack of
manners when you were down in Engineering. Sorry."

Tekari held up his
hand, "No need to apologise. It was I who was in the way," he
smiled.

"Actually," Sas began, "my team should know what they are doing.
Let's forget it and move on." She smiled also. "So lunch?" She invited. The
Pulsar cruising along at warp.

Tekari shrugged, "Sounds good!" And the
two left the Bridge.

During the turbolift ride to the small Mess Hall,
Sas had her hands in front of her and looked to the doors. She wondered if
Tekari lost anyone to the Borg, but not game enough to ask as it would cause an
emotional breakdown.

"Sir, since you are a rank higher then I, what are
you having for lunch?" Sas asked hoping to make conversation.

Tekari
thought for a moment, "I was thinking of having a Bolian Tomato Soup. They're
really good."

"Bolian, wow. I'm going to order some bread pieces, mind if
we share?" Sas asked all sweetly as the lift doors opened and they stepped out
on their way to the Mess Hall.

=^= There's a personal transmission for you
over subspace. Would you like it rerouted to your Quarters? =^=

Tekari
nodded, "Yes, sure, thank you. Tekari out." He then turned to Sashela, "It seems
I'm the one getting busy now. Sorry, but I must go. Perhaps another
time?"

"Alright, I look forward to it." Sas replied.

[Senior
staff meeting in the conference room in one hour. All departments heads will
attend. Commander Weist, out]

Sas
looked to Tekari, "well looks like we both must cancel our plans and go to the
meeting." Sas frowned as the two made their way back to deck one and the
conference room.

OOC: JOINT POST brought to you by
Lieutenant Commander Tekari and myself.

Posted by: Reyan Caius Sep 16 2006, 05:28 PM

Reyan and Commander Weist walked into the Conference room, and studied it
with interest

"Fairly small, but it'll do" Reyan remarked

"Same
design as the Intrepid class conference room" Renee stated

"Still better
than what we had aboard the Sitak - it always felt as if the table had been
stolen from a much larger conference room and somehow squeezed into the Sitak's
- we had to be careful not to move our chairs back too far for fear of becoming
part of the bulkhead!" Reyan stated

The doors to the conference room
whispered open, and the senior officers began to filter in, many of them
conversing, laughing and joking - somthing that Reyan was pleased to see -
friendships were beginning to form aboard the new ship

Reyan cleared his
throat

"If I could have your attention" he called

The chatter died
down, and all of the officer's turned their attention to Reyan

"Firstly,
thankyou all for coming - the reason that I have called you here is to provide
you with a brief summary of the mission ahead. Although this isn't standard
proceedure, my reason for wanting to do so on this occasion is twofold. Reason
one - this is a new ship - granted, she's one of a well established, efficent
and frankly underestimated class, but she is, nonetheless, new. Secondly - I
don't want to sugarcoat the truth - the mission we have been assigned is a
dangerous one" he explained

"In what respect?" Lieutenant Davey
asked

Commander Weist leaned foward, indicating that she was to field the
question

"The Pulsar is en-route to the Celendi system, and ultimately,
the Celendi Nebula" Commander Weist explained

Lieutenant Darkon leaned
foward, an expression akin to Awe

"The Celendi Nebula - we're going to
explore a particle-flux nebula?" he stated

"Unfortunatley, exploration
isn't our top priority - our mission to to try and locate a mission Federation
Akira class Starship, the USS Avocet - it is beleived that she was somehow
disabled and wound up in the Nebula" Reyan explained

"How long can a
starship last in a particle-flux nebula?" Counselor Jo enquired

"Assuming
that the Avocet has active regenerative shields, she could remain in there for
up to seven days" Lieutenant Kerrigan advised

"She should also have
ablaitive armour, which won't protect her from the radiation, but will prevent
immediate damage to her hull" Lieutenant-Commander Tekari
advised

"Lieutenant's Darkon, Davey and Kerrigan - I'd like you three to
try and devise a way of maintaining an active tractor beam in that nebula,
should the Pulsar need to go in and drag the Avocet out" Reyan
ordered

"Understood" they replied, each looking slightly
apprehensive

"Lieutenant-Commander Tekari - I'd like tactical readyness
increased. Call me paranoid if you will, but somthing in this region rendered an
Akira class starship powerless- for all we know so far, the Avocet was dragged
into the Nebula - eitherways, I can't see them having entered willingly"

"Aye sir" Tekari replied confidently

"Counselor Jo, Doctor Dixon
- I'd like you to keep a close eye on staff morale - this is their first mission
and no doubt some of our officer's, particularly the more junior ones, are
feeling a little overwhelmed" Commander Weist ordered

"That's all -
thankyou for your time - you have your assignments - we arrive in the Celendi
system in four hours" Reyan stated, standing and indicating toward the
door

Reply anyone

Posted by: Dixon Sep 17 2006, 03:27 AM

Charlie sat at her desk, having the new nurse do her usual petty work. It was
nice to be in control, she pondered with a twisted smile. She had curiously been
rummaging through files on the ship and after a short while, she landed on
Captain Reyan’s profile. She bit her lip as she looked as his picture, finding
her heart fluttering. What am I thinking? She had always been drawn to
power, and he was certainly the most powerful man on the ship. She let a loose
finger trace his face. “Oh Captain, my Captain,” she sighed with a smile.

[Senior
staff meeting in the conference room in one hour. All departments’ heads will
attend. Commander Weist, out.]

Biting
her lip, she had made her decision. It wasn’t the wisest, but she knew she would
regret it if she didn’t. Kissing the tips of her index and middle finger, she
pressed it to his picture before rising.

Her solo ride to the meeting was
quiet and full of much heavy thought. She had never been it such a situation;
she had mostly been friends with guys her whole life, and how she was falling
for two at the same time in the same crowded space. Even though Marix seemed to
be her more obvious choice, she knew her heart felt differently when around her
superior. When the lift paused, she straightened her jacket and aligned her new
three pips before sighing and stepping off.

The room was full when she
entered and she quietly found her seat next to Jo, giving her a warm smile as
she sat down.

"If I could have your attention," Reyan
called.

Charlie felt the heat rise to her cheeks as she slowly turned to
him. As he began explaining the mission, she caught herself drifting in his
words. She had scraped by in her technical classes at the academy, having found
them dull and ill-important, so she vaguely listened to the details; they made
little sense to her medical mind.

"Counselor Jo, Doctor Dixon, I'd like
you to keep a close eye on staff morale; this is their first mission and no
doubt some of our officers, particularly the more junior ones, are feeling a
little overwhelmed," Commander Weist ordered.

Charlie felt herself flush
as she sat slowly rigid, trying to look inconspicuous as she sat up. With a
brisk nod, she shifted eye contact from Commander Weist to Reyan, who smiled at
her as he dismissed the meeting.

Charlie quickly stood up, following her
fellow officers out the doorway. As she past by Reyan, she looked away, but felt
a hand on her shoulder. Turning, she followed the hand up the arm, her eyes
landing on Reyan’s face, his brow raised with a smirk.

The room cleared,
he sighed, releasing his grip. “Could you tell me what the mission is
about?”

“It wouldn’t matter if I was listening, you still might as well
be speaking Klingon,” Charlie said honestly with a smirk. “Besides, I understand
my part of the mission. And you know that I’ll read up on your mission bulletin
and do research,” she said, eyes searching his face and finding it serious.
“Sir,” she said slowly, looking away to the floor. I knew this was
out-of-line; this whole idea was profound, I-

She felt a hand on her
chin, directing her vision back to his face. Her heart fluttered at his gentle
touch as she looked into his dark eyes, feeling her own relax into their depth.
She clenched her sweaty palms as she swallowed visibly. The moment seemed to
linger thickly, and she suddenly found herself liplocked, running a hand through
his soft hair with a soft murmur. Gaining sanity momentarily later and stepping
away, she hesitantly laughed. “I-.. I’m sorry, Captain.” His eyes darted across
her face silently, and he stepped forward, tucking a loose strand of hair behind
her ear before dipping towards her once again.

The world seemed to stand
still. Her heart pounded as she felt his warm breath flare across her face, his
hands running through her dark hair. The tension between them
dissipated.

“Nurse Campbell
to Doctor Dixon.”

The
voice was like an alarm clock pulling her from a good dream. At the second call,
Charlie put a hand on Reyan’s chest and took a deep breath, looking into his
eyes with a small smile, hardly containable with the excitement coursing through
her veins.

“Go ahead, Ensign,” she said quietly.

“We’re having
the beginning rounds of new physicals, sir. I need your assistance on running a
few of these tests.”

Charlie
frowned as she tediously straightened herself, running a hand through her hair.
“I’ll be right there. Dixon out,” Charlie sighed. “Apparently I wasn’t the only
one with the other on their mind all day,” she whispered, biting her lip.

Posted by: Reyan Caius Sep 17 2006, 04:53 AM

“Apparently I wasn’t the only one with the other on their mind all day,”
Charlie whispered

Reyan smiled, wondering how it was that he was so very
unable to resist her

"You wern't" Reyan confirmed, recalling that he
hadn't been able to lock eyes with Charlie during the meeting through fear of
loosing his chain of thought

Charlie turned, and began to walk toward the
door

"Charlie" Reyan called

She stopped, and turned to face him;
he felt his pulse increase, and his temprature rise slightly

"I.... still
owe you dinner" he stated, lost in thoughts of how beautiful she looked, and her
lovely eyes

"I'd like that" she whispered in reply

Reyan stepped
toward her once again, unable to resist, and took her in his arms, pressing his
body against hers, so tight that he could almost feel her heartbeat. His lips
pressed against hers, and they shared another long, passionate kiss, one that
seemed to last an enternity, and that Reyan wished would never end - Reyan
directed her toward a chair, and sat, pulling her onto his lap, still holding
her tight and kissing her deeply

And when the kiss had ended, neither of
them had any idea of how much time had passed

"Sorry Charlie - you were
needed in sickbay" Reyan apologised, through shorted breath, running his hand
through her hair

Charlie smiled

"I'm sure that my staff can manage
the initals of the psychical without me" she replied

Reyan
chuckled

"Well, as much as I would love to remain here, with you, I
should show my face on the bridge" he stated

Charlie stood, allowing
Reyan to do the same

"Duty calls" she sighed, as they both started toward
the doors, holding hands until they reached them

"Charlie - mission or no
mission - I'd love to spend more time with you, when time permits" Reyan
whispered

"I would like that too" she replied, smiling

Their hands
disengaged, and they both stepped back onto the bridge

Reyan made his way
over to the Command chair, whilst Doctor Dixon made her way to the turbolift -
Reyan turned briefly, watching her enter the turbolift - she smiled, and Reyan
felt himself flush, returning the smile and utterly powerless to resist doing
otherwise

And it wasn't until the turbolift doors had whispered closed,
taking Charlie away from him for the moment, that Reyan sat, still lost in
thoughts about her and the moments that they had just shared

"Are you
okay, Captain, you were in there for a little while, and look a little flushed?"
Commander Weist asked, grinning in a manner that implied that she wanted more
information, and perhaps had some idea of what had transpired between Reyan and
Charlie

Reyan coughed, sat upright in his chair, and tried to compose
himself, which did nothing to fool Renee

"Doctor Dixon and I had....
matters that required our attention" he stated, realising that it sounded false
the moment he had finnished saying it

Renee smiled, but didn't press the
issue

"ETA to the Celendi system?" Reyan asked, both eager to change the
subject as well as receive an update

"Three hours, Sir" Renee quickly
replied

Three hours - he had been with Charlie for long then he had
realised, although he did not regret the fact

"Three hours before we
arrive at the Celendi systems own version of Earth's Bermuda triange" Reyan
stated

"Initiating long range scans - we may be able to detect the
Avocet's ion trail" Lieutenant Darkon reported

"From this range?" Reyan
asked, impressed

"Yes sir - a feat for most starships, but not the
Pulsar" Gideon replied

"Impressive - good work, Lieutenant" Reyan
replied, turning his attention back to the viewscreen, his thoughts still
jumping between the mission, and Charlie, whom he was starting to wonder if he
was falling in love with

Reply anyone

Posted by: Jules Davey Sep 17 2006, 06:15 AM

Raising an eyebrow at the Captain, Jules shook her head, she had a suspicion,
and her views were very balck and white. As long as it didnt interfer with his
ability to command.

She turned her attention back to her console, trying
to decide the best way to go about this tractor beam. It would have to cut
through the particals in the nebula, which could be hard to keep it
stable.

"Captain, I am going to engineering." She informed him, her eyes
chilly.

"Understood Commander." He said.

Jules left, and made her
way throught he ship, walking into engineering and looking for Lt. Kerrigan. She
spotted her by the master systems display and approached her.

Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Sep 17 2006, 10:05 AM

After the briefing Sas returned to Engineering to begin work on the tractor
beam. Sas was at the master systems display re-routing many power and control
conduits for use by the tractor beam. A moment or two later, someone approached
and introduced themselves.

Sas turned
and smiled. "Lieutenant Commander Davey, Lieutenant Sashela Kerrigan Chief
Engineer. What can I do for you?" Sas said playfully. "Ideas, oh many but most
not excatly good." She said.

"Really?" Jules asked, "well let's fix that
shall we?"

"It's a date." Sas nodded gesturing to the console beside her.
"All yours, Gideon should be on his way." Sas added as the two worked on the
modifications to the tractor beam emitters.

Posted by: Dixon Sep 17 2006, 05:42 PM

Charlie crossed her arms as she leaned against the railing of the turbolift.
She tilted her head as she ordered the deck, a faint smile still on her lips.
She had never felt a rush so powerful wash over her as it did when she felt him
pull her towards him the last time.

“Headed to Sickbay anytime
soon?”

Charlie turned her head slowly to the open doorway, a liquid smile
on her face. She jumped up straight when she saw Marix standing in the doorway.
He rolled his eyes and grabbed her arm, pulling her out.

"You really
need to focus more on your job and less on me," he said boldly before bursting
into laughter. Charlie pulled out of his grip.

“Professionalism,
Lieutenant,” Charlie muttered firmly, walking passed him to Sickbay first. The
doors parted, revealing a good ten people all standing around muttering. Charlie
blushed when they all looked at her, huffing sighs as her belated presence.

“It’s about time,” said a harsh voice, grabbing her arm and pulling her
to her office. “Where have you been? We’ve needed your authorization several
times!” the EMH hissed.

“I’m sorry, I had other matters that required my
direct attention,” she said, her lips quirking in memory. She clamped her sweaty
palms shut as she sat on the edge of her desk. “What do you need?”

The
EMH sighed, “We've run all the basics readings, we just need access to the
scanning devices.” Charlie took the PADDs he held out to her, looking over them.
Out of the corner of her eye she saw Marix trail in, giving her a confused and
wounded look as he passed by the window.

“Very well,” she replied,
breaking the eye-contact and handing the PADDs back over to the hologram.
“Campbell and Marix can run the lower level scans, blood, bone, cardio, lymph
and reproductive. You can take bronci, gastro and muscular. I’ll take the head
scans, cranial and brainwave.”

“Sounds fun,” the EMH said with a dryly
taking the PADDs back. “We’ll get started. You’ll need to request the senior
staff down here soon, at least before we get to the nebula. They’ll want to
climb into a shuttle all gung ho,” he said dramatically raising the PADDs with a
sigh, exiting shortly after, assigning the tasks like a true assistant CMO.
Charlie crossed her arms, looking out over the scene as the patients began
perking up and moving towards various beds where everyone went to work.

“No one like the Captain to start with,” Charlie said to herself, coming
off the temporary high with a burning passion to rekindle it. Tapping her
combadge, feeling her heart begin to race again, she said, “Dixon to Captain
Caius. Your physical needs updating, and since Sickbay is getting a little
crowded, I’d like you to meet me in one of the isolation chambers four doorways
down.”

Posted by: Renee Weist Sep 18 2006, 01:00 AM

Renee left the conference room, and went back to the bridge. It soon became a
hive of activity as each crew member went about their assigned tasks. Renee
pulled up her console, and began going over incoming reports on status and
effeicency, compiling them into one report for the Captain.

He had stayed
behind with the Dr ir seemed, to discuss...matters of some urgency, so she held
the ship steady on course as ordered. Soon, the both emerged, and Renee no
longer had to guess. Expressions said it all. He certainly bounces back
fast!

"ETA to the Celendi system?" Reyan asked, after assuming his
chair and avoiding Renee's question completely. although a blind man could have
seen it with a cane.

"Three hours, Sir" Renee quickly
replied

"Three hours before we arrive at the Celendi systems own version
of Earth's Bermuda triange" Reyan stated

"Initiating long range scans -
we may be able to detect the Avocet's ion trail" Lieutenant Darkon
reported

"From this range?" Reyan asked, impressed

"Yes sir - a
feat for most starships, but not the Pulsar" Gideon replied

"Impressive -
good work, Lieutenant" Reyan replied.

The starscape continued to pass in
the viewscreen, while Renee silently went over the last reports on the system
from their Klingon allies. Whatever was coming, she feared it would have far
reaching implications.

Posted by: Jules Davey Sep 18 2006, 03:42 AM

Jules smiled at the Engineer, looking over the possible ways to stabilish the
beam in the nebula, she frowned, feeling a slight niggle at the back of her
head. She sighed, "I don't know about you, but I am beginning to get a headache
just thinking about this. It's not sitting right, this whole mission makes me
feel jumpy." She admitted, rubbing her left hand across the back of her neck,
and roling her head.

"Is it me, or is it hot in here?" She asked,
suddenly aware of a temporature increase.

Posted by: Reyan Caius Sep 18 2006, 06:20 AM

"Commander Weist - you have the bridge" Reyan ordered, making his way to the
turbolift, and ultimately sickbay, in response to Doctor Dixon's
request

"Aye Sir" Renee replied

He arrived at sickbay prompty,
barely remembering the journey there - sickbay was a hive of activity - nurses
performing psychical examinations on junior officers, all beds
occupied

"Ah - you must be the Captain?" a voice called from behind

The EMH strode toward him

"I am - and you must be the Pulsar's
EMH" Reyan replied

"Indeed - if you are looking for Doctor Dixon, I
beleive that she is waiting for you in isolation chamber two" the EMH stated
helpfully

"Odd - wasn't aware that I was carrying a contagion of any
sort" Reyan replied, grinning

An expression of concern appeared on the
EMH's face

"Joking, Doctor - we'll have to work on your sense of humor"
Reyan laughed

"I don't have one" the EMH replied, sounding
offended

"Well, have to start somewhere" Reyan replied

He turned
and headed toward the isolation chamber section - three small doors, the first
one open - his heart skipped a beat when he saw Charlie inside, preparing the
room

"May I come in, Doctor" he stated

Charlie looked up at him,
her face slightly flushed, as he imagined that his own was

"Of course -
just preparing the room for your psychical" she replied

Reyan stepped
into the room, and he had barely cleared the door when Charlie activated the
control to close it - the door whispered closed, locked, and a shield dropped
over the window, blocking any view from the outside

"Where do we start?"
Reyan asked, feeling very much as if the temprature had risen
significantly

Charlie opened her tricoder, and waved it over him

"You seem to be in good health, although your pulse rate is quite
high

Reyan took a step toward her

"....and your blood pressure is
very slightly raised" she continued

He took her in his arms, felt her
arms fold around him, and they pulled close to each other, his lips pressing
against hers

"You have the most incredible effect on me, Charlie" he
whispered, as they assisted each other in the removal of their
uniforms

And, still kissing, they slipped into the chamber bed together

Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Sep 19 2006, 12:11 AM

"Yeah headaches are common place in Engineering." Sas said with a grin as she
had learned to harness the pain of a headache and use it to power drive her
determination to better herself. Just as the tractor beam control system had
been successfully recalibrated to a frequency Sas wanted, Jules said she was
hot. The Trill looked at the Operations officer and raised an eyebrow. "I think
it might be just you." Sas said before realising that she too was approaching a
higher temperature. "Hey, what the..." She said, "now I feel hot too." She took
off her uniform jacket to reveal that her uniform shirt had the sides removed,
showing her spots but the back and front pieces were joined by a single string
on material. "Ah that's better." Sas continued working on the tractor beam.
Few more minutes and we'll be finished. She thought.

Posted by: Renee Weist Sep 19 2006, 11:30 PM

Renee was brought back to the moment from her reports and data by the
Captain.

"Commander Weist - you have the bridge" Reyan ordered, making
his way to the turbolift.

"Aye Sir" Renee replied.

She grinned, as
she had certain ideas as to where he was going, and she was not so sure it was
professional either! Perhaps it started out that way...

She returned ot
her files and data. The Klingons had masked a great store of informations about
the system surrounding the nebula, since it was on the outer reaches of their
borders. But they also held alot of precaution in it as well.

It was if
it were "spookie" in some way, as even the crew grew more restless the closer
they got to the nebula. And what of all those reports..of ships going in and
never coming out? Was there somthing inside the nebula? A black hole uncharted
or a wormhole? Some other sort of dimensional gateway?

There were
certainly enough questions, and Science was going to have its hands full finding
some answers. She leaned back in her chair, as she never took the command seat.
Call her superstious, but she just could not sit in that seat unless she had to.
And right now, she didn't have to!

Posted by: Dixon Sep 20 2006, 02:09 AM

The last kiss lingered before Charlie lay back in his embrace, breath heavy
and gasping. With a satisfied smile, she curled against the warmth of his chest,
cradling her head in the nook of his neck.

“So do I pass my physical?” he
whispered with a warm laugh; Charlie smiled at the low rumble in her ear and the
small joke.

“In my books,” she replied back. “But to be honest, we’re
going to have to get it over with, for protocol sake.”

Reyan sighed as he
propped up his head with one hand, looking down at her with sparkling eyes.
Charlie blushed, but returned his deep gaze that took her breath away. How could
she feel so strongly about a man she hardly knew? She reached up, tracing his
jawline with a soft curious finger. He took her hand with his loose one,
intertwining their fingers and kissing the back of her hand. Charlie felt her
blood churn warm, and she sat up to take him in another passionate kiss.

“Really,” Charlie whispered moments later as she gasped for breath,
embracing him closely with her arms around his neck, scratching his back
comfortingly. She couldn’t help herself but continue the fervent kiss, but Reyan
broke the kiss, planting a trail of kisses down her neck. Charlie moaned,
running her hands through his hair. “Really,” Charlie stressed, pulling his head
up with her hand on his chin, giving him a kiss before getting out of the bed
and digging through the pile of clothes for her own.

Reyan watched her
with a smirk, absorbing every inch of the woman as she dressed, tediously
tugging here and there, pulling her hair up before turning to catch his gaze. He
looked up at her with a cheeky smile. Charlie rolled her eyes before picking up
his uniform and tossing it at him, his pants landing square on his
face.

“Keep your jacket off,” she requested dryly upon receiving his
grimace. “Can I get you something to drink?” she asked nonchalantly, making her
way over to the replicator; the isolation chambers were built mainly like most
quarters for they served the purpose of quarters for those who were too
contagious but well enough to live on their own.

“Water would be fine,”
Reyan said, pulling his shirt over his head. Charlie bit her lip to hide the
smile forming on her face; it was truly amazing how quickly she had fallen for
him, and how comfortable she was with him.

Returning with two glasses of
water, Charlie handed him his and set hers down on the table after taking a
drink. “Okay,” she said, picking the tricorder up off the floor and setting it
on the table. “Just a few tests to run,” she murmured, falling back into doctor
mode. She picked up another instrument in one hand, and took Reyan’s arm in the
other. Putting the instrument to his arm, it gave a small prick that took a
sample of blood. Not expecting the instantaneous needle in his arm, he flinched,
sloshing his water.

“I like Charlie’s bedside manner better than yours,
Doctor,” he said, frowning and rubbing the inanimate hole in the bend of his
arm.

Charlie smirked as she watched the results scroll across the
instruments screen. “Charlie has a lot more fun that the Doctor,” she commented
with a grin. “You need to watch your cholesterol,” she warned before setting it
down. Reyan raised a brow of question while sipping his water. “Oh, come on, we
have to do this. The EMH would have my head on a holographic platter if I didn’t
evaluate the senior officers.”

“I know,” Reyan sighed, rubbing the back
of his neck. “Protocol.”

“We all joined knowing it,” Charlie replied with
an equally dull sigh, picking up the tricorder to run most of the basic level
tests and scans. She paused, raising a brief brow before
continuing.

“What?”

“Nothing,” Charlie said smirked with a small
shrug.

“What?” Reyan pressed, grabbing her scanning hand.

“Sinus
Tachycardia Arrhythmia. I didn’t know,” she commented. “Nothing fatal, just a
curious disease I’ve only seen in books.”

Posted by: Sam Sep 21 2006, 07:13 AM

Ensign Sam who was just fresh out of starfleet academy stepped out of the
turbolift and onto the bridge.

"Ensign Sam, reporting for duty." he
Said

and what a fantastic bridge it was

Posted by: Reyan Caius Sep 21 2006, 11:22 AM

Sinus Tachycardia Arrhythmia. I didn’t know,” she commented. “Nothing fatal,
just a curious disease I’ve only seen in books" Doctor Dixon
explained

"Well, I'll make
sure that it does get monitored - I know how you Captain's like to avoid seeing
your Doctor's" Charlie stated

"Not this Captain" Reyan replied,
grinning

They began to move toward each other again, but were interrupted
by the comm system

"Commander
Weist to Captain Reyan"

Reyan
scooped his discarded uniform tunic off the floor and activated his comm
badge

"Reyan here -
go ahead"
he quickly
replied

"Captain -
we've entered the Celendi system"
Renee advised

Reyan looked at Charlie, shocked that
so much time had again passed without their, or at least his
knowledge

"I'm on my way,
Commander - Reyan out"
he replied,
hastily dressing back into his uniform

"Thank you for the examination,
Charlie, we'll have to do it again sometime" Reyan stated, pausing from
fastening his tunic to admire Charlie's lovely figure

"You're most
welcome - although I am sure that Commander Weist knows that Psychical
examinations don't generally take more than two hours to complete" she replied,
a hint of concern in her voice

Reyan took her hands in his

"Don't
worry about Renee - I trust her - I expect that she has realised what has been
happening between you and I, but she won't press the issue so long as I do what
is required of me and actually admit that you and I have been spending time
together - I know we haven't known each other for long, Charlie, but when I'm
with you I....." he replied, struggling to find the appropriate
words

Charlie, pulling on her tunic, simply smiled, appearing to
understand what it was that Reyan was attempting to say

Reyan felt
himself flush slightly

"I'm needed on the bridge - but my offer of dinner
still stands, if you are willing" he stated, heading toward the chamber
door

"So long as you are doing the cooking" Charlie replied,
straightening her uniform

"Deal" Reyan replied, smiling at her, before he
stepped out of the chamber, and stode at quick pace toward the sickbay exit and
the turbolift

He soon arrived back on the bridge, and Commander Weist
stood as he stepped toward the command area

"I did - do you have a few minutes?" Reyan
stated, realising that he had to tell Renee about Charlie and himself

"Of
course" Renee replied, standing and following him to the ready room

As
soon as the doors whispered closed, Reyan turned to face her

"Renee - I
just wanted to apologise firstly - I'm certain that you have noticed that Doctor
Dixon and myself have been spending some time together" he stated

"I
have" Renee replied simply, indicating that she wished for Reyan to
continue

"I don't make a habit of hiding anything from my Executive
Officer's, Renee - I will admit that Charlie and myself have become.... close,
in what could be described as a short space of time. I would much rather you
hear this from me than through the grapevine that is often so efficent on a ship
the size of ours" he explained

Renee smiled

"Thanks for admitting
it" she replied

"You have no objection?" Reyan asked

"No - so long
as you don't leave the bridge at warp-speed, as you did when she summoned you
for your exam, again" Renee replied, all traces of humor having
vannished

Reyan sighed

"Yeah - I guess that was unprofessional -
it won't happen again" he apologised

Renee nodded in reply, and they both
stepped back onto the bridge

"Who's the new helm officer?" Reyan
whispered to Renee, not recoginsing the Ensign sat at the station

"Picking of very faint
traces of what could be her ion trail - but there is a great deal of
radiation in the area - it's difficult to tell, even with these sensors" Gideon
replied

"Approaching the Nebula perimeter" Ensign Sam
advised

"Bring us out of warp, engage an approach vector at full impulse"
Commander Weist ordered

The Pulsar burst out of warp, and her impulse
engines engaged, thrusting her foward at a lesser pace

"In visual range,
Captain" Ensign Sam reported

"On screen" Reyan advised

The screen
view changed to one of open space, and a dark cloud with an eerie glow in the
distance

"Magnify" Reyan demanded

The image changed, the Nebula
appearing significantly closer - it appeared to be little more than a immense
black cloud, flashes of dark red lightning illuminating it
occasionally

"Looks inviting" Reyan muttered

"Begin intensive
scans, all sensors, look for anything that could be the Avocet" Commander
Weist called

"Aye sir" came the replies from numerous
Officers

"Ensign - bring us to within six-hundred meters of the nebula
perimeter, and then all stop and hold position"

The Pulsar slowed, and
stopped, shadowed by the nebula, the red flashes illuminating her hull

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Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Sep 22 2006, 02:01 AM

The sensors beeped on the console beside Sas as she was working on something
else, she looked at the console from which the beep originated. We're
there. She thought a smile tugging at her mouth. Sas tapped her commbadge.
=^= Kerrigan to Reyan, Captain the tractor beam is ready. It's rather sensitive
so please don't put too much pressure on it. =^= She called. Jules stood
somewhere else in Engineering, Sas wasn't sure what she was doing but it peeked
the Trill's interest anyway. "Lieutenant Commander Davey, what are you doing
over there?" Sas asked spotting the Operations Chief.

Posted by: Jules Davey Sep 23 2006, 10:26 AM

Jules heard the Lieutenant’s calls and looked round.

“I was just
accessing the operations console from here. I was wondering about sending a type
2 probe into the nebula.” She said, looking at the attractive
engineer.

“I’m going to head back up to the bridge, see what the Captain
thinks about that idea. Might be able to get some detailed analysis from inside
the nebula without actually placing the ship in danger.” she said, smiling at
Sas as she quickly left, heading to the bridge.

She noticed though that
her headache was getting worse. She brushed it off, it had been a long day,
maybe she just needed a rest. But later, for now she had a nebula to scan. She
would need to boost the power feeds to the main arrays, boosting their signal in
anyways she could.

Stepping out onto the bridge, she headed straight to
her station, ignoring the looks she got. She wanted to try and get as much done
before her headache threatened to consume her totally. She had never had
anything like it before.

“Sir, might I suggest a type 2 probe. It could
scan the nebula without getting the ship any closer?” She said, looking up at
the Captain.

Posted by: Tekari Sep 23 2006, 09:47 PM

Tekari and the other Tactical officers had been working around the ship,
trying to improve its defenses. His call would have to be put on hold for a
while as he did all this. It wasn't long before the shield grid was improved, as
with structural integrity.

The El-Aurian made his way back to the Bridge,
just in time for the Pulsar to reach the Nebula. He began taking scans of it
immediately... and it wasn't only him, but a few other officer's took scans
aswell, as such was protocol.

I wonder what we'll find in there...
he thought.

Posted by: Reyan Caius Sep 24 2006, 05:08 AM

Reyan pondered Commander Davey's suggestion - a probe would greatly
suppliment the Pulsar's sensor gain, although it was questionable how long it
would survive in the nebula

He turned to Commander Davey

"Good
idea, Commander - launch the probe - it might not last too long in there, but
anything is better than nothing" he advised

Lieutenant-Commander Davey
nodded, and worked her console with professional efficency

"Probe away,
Sir" she advised

The viewscreen showed the small probe, which initally
appeared stationary, but quickly activated it's small thrusters and shot toward
the nebula

Commander Weist stood, and made her way to the operations station
to assist Commander Davey

"The probe is deteriorating, but still
transmitting" Commander Tekari informed them

"Got it - definitely a
Federation Starship" Commander Davey called

"All hands, yellow alert -
Ensign Sam - lay in a course to the probes last positon" Reyan called - the
bridge lighting dimmed slightly, signifiying the change in the ship's
status

"Commander Tekari - I'm trusting you to keep the shields at peak
efficency - the Avocet had the advantage of having regenerative shielding and
ablative armour, we don't have that advantage - the shields are all we have"
Reyan advised Commander Tekari

"Understood" Tekari replied
confidently

"Commander Davey, send a subspace message to Starfleet,
advising them of our findings and intentions" Commander Weist stated, moving
away from op's and making her way back to her seat

"Aye Commander......
message transmitted" Davey replied

"In that case - take us in, Ensign"
Reyan ordered

"Aye Sir" Ensign Sam replied

The Pulsar moved
cautiously foward, closer and closer to the unwelcoming black mass that was the
Celendi neubla, the occasional red flare illuminating the bridge, casting an
almost supernatural glow

"Entering the nebula" Sam reported

The
viewscreen flickered but, courtesy of the Pulsar's advanced sensors, corrected
itself, and continued to display the swirling black nebula

Reyan squinted
at the viewscreen as if trying to view somthing that the sensors
couldn't

"Approaching the probe's last position" Sam advised

The
Pulsar slowly passed the debris which had been their probe, before the science
station sensors began beeping an alert

"We're approaching the
coordinates" Commander Davey advised

The clouds on the viewscreen parted
slghtly, revealing an Akira-class Starship

There was a brief pause,
everyone present digesting what they were seeing

"All stop" Commander
Weist ordered

"Scanning...... Showing significant damage, her
regenerative shields are still barely functional, hull breaches on decks 4 - 10,
her main power is offline, warp core appears to be dead... impulse reactors
burnt out - life support at 12% - reading a few faint lifesigns" Lieutenant
Darkon reported

"Weapons systems still active, although her phasers are
at 10% power" Commander Tekari advised

"I don't like this - if whatever
did this to an Akira-class starship returns...." Commander Davey
whispered

Reyan didn't reply - as proud as he was of the Pulsar,
Commander Weist was correct - the Avocet was a starship built with defense and
tactical operations in mind, and somthing had reduced the Avocet to a barely
habitable hulk - the Pulsar's chances of surviving whatever it was that the
Avocet had endured were significantly slim

"Commander Weist - I'd like
you to take an away team to the Avocet - take a shuttle - I don't want to risk
dropping the either the Pulsar or the Avocet's shields, and I doubt that the
transporters would work effectively in this nebula anyway" Reyan
ordered

Commander Weist stood, and began issuing orders, although Reyan
didn't hear her - his thoughts were focused on the Avocet, floating almost
lifelessly only meters away from the Pulsar, and what could have caused her
damage

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Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Sep 24 2006, 07:08 AM

After Jules left, Sas got the tractor beam control relays in place for the
Bridge operations console so Jules could activate it without bugging the
Engineering staff as they had other things to do. Sas was onto her next task,
refining the dilithium crystals breakdown rate to feed the core more
efficiently.

She tapped her commbadge a second later. =^= Kerrigan to
Reyan, sir, the tractor beam is ready for use. I've tied it into the Operations
console so Lieutenant Commander Davey can activate it on your command. Anything
else sir while I'm on the comm? =^= Sas made a giggle.

Posted by: Renee Weist Sep 24 2006, 12:37 PM

Renee stood, after being ordered to gather an away team, and went about her
duty.

"Commander Darken, you and Commander Tekari are with me," she
said, as Lt Kerrigan came over the comm.

=^= Kerrigan to Reyan, sir, the
tractor beam is ready for use. I've tied it into the Operations console so
Lieutenant Commander Davey can activate it on your command. Anything else sir
while I'm on the comm? =^=

"If I may?" Renee asked Reyan?

He
nodded.

Lt Kerrigan,
this is Commander Weist. If you would join the away team, please? Also, I know
of your shuttle pod, and perhaps this would be an appropriate time to give it a
go.

She
headed for the lift, followed by Gideon and Tekari. Sas'hela joined them in the
docking bay where the workbee once had occupied the space, and showed them her
pet project.

"Very interesting, Lt. Let's see what she can do. Standard
away team issue, please. I am a certified field medic, so I need a med kit as
well. Gather equpiment and meet her in 10. Dismissed," she said to the ones
standing before her.

She made her way quickly to sickbay, and found Dr
Dixon.

"Dr, I need a emergency medical kit, please," she asked, as she
checked her other things.

"I am not going along?" Charlie
asked.

"Not this time, Dr. Until we know there is a reason for it, there
is no since in putting our ships physician in danger. I can handle anything
emergency wise, and report back. Once we latch onto that ship, and get her out,
or if there is a pressing need for your services, I'll contact the ship. Right
now, we simply do not know," Renee replied.

Posted by: Tekari Sep 24 2006, 08:47 PM

Tekari made his way to the Weapons lockers and took out four phasers. He
began activating them when he was approached by Vein.

"The shields are
holding at 99%," Tekari explained. "The modifications to the power grid are
holding up."

Vein nodded, "I'll be on the Bridge, watching over
it."

"Be sure to keep in touch with Engineering."

The Ensign
grabbed each phaser as Tekari was setting the next one. "Aye, sir. Are you sure
going over to that ship is a good idea?"

"Possibly. But we'll never get
any further without taking the risk. Besides, there are people over there who
need our help."

Vein handed back the phasers. "Good luck,
sir."

"Just take care of the ship," Tekari smiled.

The Chief
Tactical officer made his way back down to the Docking bay, where he met up with
the rest of the Away Team.

Posted by: Gideon Sep 25 2006, 02:41 AM

When Lieutenant Darkon left the senior staff meeting, he headed directly for
the science lab. Approaching his Chief Petty Officer, Christina Young, he
informed her of the modifications to the mission and asked her to organize a
team to get the sensors perfoming at top proficiency.

"But sir, do you
mean the long or short range sensors?"

"Please, it's Gideon. I need as
much sensor strength as we can get. Give me a signal when you've got them
running. I have a feeling that the nebula will not be forgiving to sensor
errors." Before letting her go, Gideon added, "Also, while you're at it, we
might as well get a probe or two ready in case we need to launch
it."

"Understood, sir--I mean, understood, Gideon."

The Lieutenant
smiled as his crewmen worked like bees around the laboratories. He straightened
a few calibrations in his office and left straight for the bridge. Entering the
turbolift, he said under his breath. Oh, and I've got to meet Lieutenant
Kerrigan in Engineering, too. That will have to wait.

Within seconds,
he entered the bridge. He brought up the science console and finished up the
projects that required his personal attention. He ran the scans for the Captain
from three hours out at warp 8.5. The scans revealed the nebula with a strange
energy signature. Nothing really unusual. Everyone knows that a particle-flux
nebula should be accompanied with unusal energy patterns. But what is going on
here? He isolated a particular energy pattern, revealing its atomic
structure, sending a copy to his chemical lab for analysis.

"Hey, James?"
he asked, addressing his crewman. "Can you take a look of this chemical pattern
for me. It seems I've got my work cut out for me up here."

"Certainly,
Gideon. I'm receiving your transmission now."

Gideon
did not mind doing these tasks. Certainly most Lieutenants in the science field
would be examining their own chemical patterns, but it made it much easier for
Gideon not to struggle over the tedious jobs, leaving his mind more free to make
the important decisions which he was not able to delegate.

He saw the
Captain return to the Bridge after his physical. He and his first officer went
immediately to his ready room. The two officers soon returned and took their
seats after a short brief by the new helm officer.

The scans he had
run were very faint, but he reported to the Captain what they had uncovered. As
he hadn't heard from his crewman, he didn't mention anything about the peculiar
atomic patterns he had discovered.

Before Gideon knew it, he was sitting
at his science console, the main viewscreen engulfed by the giant purple cloud.
His sensors showed it was still half a kilometer away but they might as well
have entered the nebula already for the effect he was sure it began to play on
the vital systems of the ship as well as its crew. The sensors were not
divulging any information he could not detect from 20 kilometers from the
perimeter. He was about to advise the Captain to back off from the nebula, but
as soon as he turned his chair, opened his mouth and took a breath to voice the
words, he heard the Captain give the order to launch a Class-two
probe.

This resulted in a new set of jobs Gideon was required to do. He
sighed silently and turned back to his console. The next few minutes involved a
lot of silent hopes and holding breath from the bridge officers until the probe
found what most likely would prove to be the Avocet. The Captain ordered further
investigation and before long, they were facing the missing ship with the
difficiencies caused by being in the nebula for so long to its hull, systems and
crew.

As Commander Weist was selecting Gideon for the away team, Gideon
was receiving a transmission from his science crew.
"Hey Gideon,"
came the voice from the transmission. "I've got that analysis you asked for. I'm
sending the data now."

"Fine," Gideon
replied to the invisible voice.
"I've got a shuttle ride ahead of me. I should have time to
take a look then."

"Yes, sir--uh,
Gideon. James out."

Gideon smiled. His crew was obviously not accustomed
to the interraction, but they were getting the hang of it. When he received the
transmission from his NCO, he quickly downloaded it to his datapadd.

In
ten minutes, he was in the shuttlebay, ready for departure.

Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Sep 25 2006, 06:49 AM

Sas left Engineering in the hands of her trusty 'right-arm'
Lieutenant D'Troy and headed off to the workbee docking bay to get her pod ready
for its first official away mission. She had left things a mess during her
reassignment to the Pulsar from her old post, and now she needed it clean and in
shape.

Meeting up with Lieutenants Darkon, Tekari and Commander Weist,
Sas showed them her shuttlepod. Of course after she spent time cleaning it up,
"what you think?" Sas asked.

Posted by: Renee Weist Oct 4 2006, 12:11 AM

Renee gathered what she needed, and made her way back tothe holding dock for
Lt Kerrigans shuttle pod. She was met by the rest of the away team, who also had
outfitted themselves well. Commander Tekari had the weapsons, and issued them
accordingly, while Lt Darkon was going over some padd or the other.

"What you think?" Lt Kerrigan asked, as Renee got her first good look at
the pod in question.

"I believe she will do nicely," Renee replied, a bit
of appreciation for the Lt's secret efforts showing through the craks of her
usual "by the book" demeanor"

"She can handle anything tossed at her,"
Kerrigan said, smiling.

"I am sure she can. We have a job to do, so lets
get to it. Anything different about this pod we need to know before we get
going?" Renee asked, as she quickly did a check of what she had with
her.

She was duty minded all the way, and rarely did anyone see her out
of form. But then again, she was the mate of a warrior. She had no time to show
weakness, although, occasionaly, she did. Perhaps weakness was not the correct
word...Humanity maybe was better. She had often lost touch with her human self,
leaving only the duty minded warrior in it's place. On the rare occasion she let
her defenses down, she was quite the charming lady. But that took some serious
getting to know. She didn't not let defenses down none to easily.

Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Oct 4 2006, 03:32 AM

| Workbee Dock

"Not anything that is important but the pilot console
has most of the control over the rest of the systems." Sas replied and opened
the hatch, "after you Commander." The Trill accepted the phaser that Tekari gave
her and smiled. "Thank you Lieutenant Commander." Sas winked at Tekari before
boarded her pod.

Inside the pod was four seats at the back, side-by-side,
and two at the front where the console was. Sas took the pilots seat and awaited
confirmation that all were seated as well as strapped in. An extra safety
feature she included in her construction of the pod.

Posted by: Reyan Caius Oct 6 2006, 12:03 PM

As the away team prepared to depart, Reyan couldn't help but feel a measure
of concern about what awaited them on the Avocet - although the Pulsar's mission
demanded that they investigate, the sight of the once-powerful USS Avocet
reduced to a almost lifeless hulk was enough to give any Starship Captain
pause for concern

"Scan for any sign that it has an onboard
weapons system, or explosives" Reyan ordered

"Having trouble scanning -
it reflects some of our scans - but I can confirm that it is comprised of
materials that are not in the Federation database, and there is an extremely
faint chroniton signature" Young advised

"Chronitons? So it's from either
the future or the past - and considering it has technology that we are not
familiar with, I'd say it's safe to assume it's from the future" Reyan
stated

"Yes sir - it's also resisting the nebula radiation, which is a
further indication" Young replied

"Good work, Chief - keep a close watch
on that thing - that goes for you too, Kaio - slightest hint of a power buildup
I want that probe reduce to spacedust, and fast" he ordered

Posted by: Tekari Oct 7 2006, 02:40 PM

Tekari took a seat within the Workbee. Before they knew it, they were off.
The commander began to wonder about what would lie ahead. He was not sure, but
was ready for anything...

In the meantime, he checked the shields of the
Workbee to make sure they were in operation. Doing such reminded him of his last
posting on the Pollux. There he would help in making sure the shields were
operating at a perfect frequency.

It wasn't until one Away mission, that
his efforts failed his crew. A minor error in his shield grid led a rescue
shuttle to a radiation-filled Vulcan ship to peril. The rescue team was infected
and eight Vulcans were lost. It would be a long time before he would forget that
day.

Posted by: Gideon Oct 8 2006, 02:30 AM

Gideon gave little regard for the few people he passed on the way to the
shuttlebay. His attention was focussed upon the details from the padd in which
he had downloaded the chemical analysis from the nebula. As he entered the
Workbee Shuttle, he continued to study, barely noticing the other members of the
crew as they arrived and boarded the craft.

Gideon sat on the far side in
the back of the shuttle; the First Officer sat baside him, making some comment
or other about some padd or other he was always reading. He just nodded his head
and continued reading. Lieutenant Kerrigan took the pilot's controls and
Commander Tekari sat beside her.

If there was one thing Gideon could say
about this Petty Officer James Callahan from the Chemical Lab, it was that he
was thorough. Almost too thorough. His writing style was technical. Almost too
technical, even for Gideon. Oh, Gideon understood all the terms and concepts,
but this analysis was challenging Gideon's mind, quite an unexpected event for
the first mission.

Finally, he finished the report. It had taken him half
an hour to read through it all and the shuttlecraft was half way to the Avocet
by this time. He leaned to his neighbor and stated, "Uh, Commander, you might be
interested to read this report if you have time. I'm going to do some further
tests, but when we get back to the Pulsar, I'll need to brief you and the
Captain."

The Commander gave him a puzzling look. Perhaps it was the
first time she looked to see what it was he was reading: "The Atomic Composition
of a Nebula" by PO1 James Callahan.

Posted by: Renee Weist Oct 10 2006, 01:50 AM

They had not long left the ship, headed for the nebula itself, when Sas'hela
said they were being scanned. Renee was reading over the padd Gideon had given
her on "The Atomic Composition of a Nebula" by PO1 James Callahan. She looked
up, as Sas'hela began tapping at the controls. She looked at Gideon and pointed
ot the Science console, and he went right to it.

Assessment of the scan?"
Renee asked.

Tekari was minding the co-pilots seat, helping with Navs and
tactical. "We are not the only ones being scanned. So is the Pulsar." he
said.

"It is coming from a probe," Gideon said. "bearing 134 mark
12"

"Assessment?" Renee asked.

All of them were working on the
assessment, but it seemed this was no ordinary probe that was coming in their
direction.

"How soon until we reach the Nebula itself," she
asked.

"ETA 30 minutes, present course and speed," Sas'hela
replied.

"Slow and steady Lt.," Renee replied

Weist to the
Pulsar

Comms
were kinda scratchy, due to the nearness of the Nebula, but she had to give it a
try.

Pulsar....Cauis...Report?
she managed to
hear.

Captain, we are
on apporach, but being scanned by a probe of unknown origins

Commander...is...your discretion...

And that was it. They were in too close proximity
to the nebula.

"Well, if I heard right, we continue on. Assessment on
that probe ASAP," she said.

Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Oct 10 2006, 03:38 PM

"Approaching the probe, it's starting to interfer with the pod's systems.
Gideon I don't mean to rush you, but I'm gonna lose navigation." Sas announced
frustration in her tone. The console in front of her began to flicker
uncontrollably, Sas hit it several times. "Work you piece of." Her voice trailed
off.

Posted by: Reyan Caius Oct 10 2006, 04:05 PM

The Avocet had to be boarded, Reyan knew that - but he somehow his instincts
were telling him that ordering Commander Weist to proceed at her discretion had
been the wrong thing to do

"Captain - I've managed to extrapolate the
probe's point of origin" CPO Young called from the science station

"Excellent - but how?" Reyan asked, impressed

"Well, as I
mentioned Sir, the probe seems to have residual chroniton particles surrounding
it - I simply scanned for those particles away from the probe - there is a faint
trail, bearing 102 mark 6" she explained

"Good work, Chief - hail the
away team" Reyan replied

"Trying - but nebula interference is preventing
the messasge from reaching them" Young replied

"Launch a message buoy in
that case" Reyan replied, hopeful that his message would reach Commander Weist
one way or another

"Captain Reyan
to Commander Weist - Chief Young has managed to trace the probe's trail -
request that you download the Avocet's database, and crew logs, find out what
happened to her, and report back to the Pulsar as soon as time permits - Reyan
out"

"Recorded - launching message buoy - it's shielding will only permit a
survival time of approximately 30 minutes though sir" Young advised

"So
long as Commander Weist receives the message" Reyan answered, curious about
where the probe had come from, and if it was from the future, why it was so
interested in the Pulsar and the away team's shuttlepod

Posted by: Gideon Oct 11 2006, 02:40 AM

Gideon had been so preoccupied with his Petty Officer's report, he did not
move immediately when his turn came to save the shuttle. When Commander Weist
pointed to the Science Console, Gideon felt a tinge of embarassment at having
not already assumed the position. Hastily, he jumped to the position. When she
asked for the assessment of the scan, it took Gideon a short but pregnant pause
to respond.

"It is coming from a probe," Gideon said. "bearing 134 mark
12." He wondered if the Commander noticed how unprepared he was. As he
familiarized himself with the slightly customized system on Lieutenant
Kerrigan's shuttle, he began to run tests to confirm some of the theory's
presented in James Callahan's report. What he discovered came as an immense
shock to him and he wondered how to go about explaining the situation to the
Commander.

"Well, if I heard right, we continue on. Assessment on that
probe ASAP," she said.

"Commander," he tried to begin. "Have you had a
chance to read that report I showed you written by James Callahan?"

"Not
much time here for pleasure reading, Lieutenant."

"Well," Gideon stopped
for two reasons, really. One, he was callibrating a scanning sensor which
required a slight amount of attention to align the detection monitors precisely.
Two, he really did not know how to explain himself to his senior
officer.

"Yes, Darkon. Go on."

"In this report, it clearly
explains how the electons seem to be shifting among varying nuclei throughout
the cloud before us."

Commander Weist looked only a little annoyed. "This
report is specific to this nebula?"

Gideon smiled. "Precisely. Petty
Officer Callahan took sensor readings from the ship less than four hours ago. I
had pressing concerns on the Bridge and transmitted it to him and he presented
the readings for me in this concise report."

"Impressive, but what does
that have to do with our situation now?"

"I'm not sure, yet, but his
report has given me new theories to decipher and tests to run, which has led me
to a very strange hypothesis."

"Yes?" The Commander almost seemed
interested, finally, in what Gideon was explaining.

"The energy in that
cloud is being consumed at an exponential rate, yet this energy gives off a
by-product of even stronger energy. It is almost as if the energy is feeding
itself. The proton patterns combined with the method of electron exchange
suggest that this cloud might be alive."

Now he had her attention. "Are
you telling me we might be dealing with a lifeform here?"

"Not one, but
several," Gideon explained. "Millions. Billions of tiny lifeforms, consuming all
the energy they can encounter. They don't seem fit any of our types of known
Phylem, so we're talking about something no one has ever discovered before."

Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Oct 12 2006, 04:11 AM

"Ooooooo new lifeforms, is my shuttle any threat to them Lieutenant Darkon?"
Sas asked as she brought the pod to a full stop hoping not to cause any more
damage to them if they had been previously. "Should we grab the probe and head
back to Pulsar?" Sas later asked Commander Weist.

Posted by: Renee Weist Oct 13 2006, 12:39 AM

"Not one, but several," Gideon explained. "Millions. Billions of tiny
lifeforms, consuming all the energy they can encounter. They don't seem fit any
of our types of known Phylem, so we're talking about something no one has ever
discovered before."

Renee was floored. This was something she had not
expected!

"Ooooooo new lifeforms, is my shuttle any threat to them
Lieutenant Darkon?" Sas'hela asked as she brought the pod to a full stop hoping
not to cause any more damage to them if they had been previously. "Should we
grab the probe and head back to Pulsar?"

"And you say these "life forms"
have been here all along?" Renee queired.

"It seems that would be
correct," Gideon answered.

Renee thought a moment more. "Then it seems to
me the nebula would have decreased in mass with all the ship entries noted in to
this nebula, if harming them or causing their destruction in any way was the
case would it not?"

She heard several mumbled replies. "Have you been
able to establish any form of communication with the lifeforms?"

"Not yet
Commander," was the reply.

Again Renee thought. "Since we have no proof
our movement inside this nebula does or does not harm the life forms, and since
our first duty is to the Avocet, and her crew if they survived, that is
where our first duty lies. As for the probe, I am sure the Pulsar has it as
well. Let them contend with it since it is outside the nebula. Let us do quickly
what we were sent to do. To the Avocet, in and out!" she finally decided. "If
there are any objections, I'll so note them in the log, but we may have
Federation officers aboard that ship, and we are going to see!"

Posted by: Gideon Oct 13 2006, 02:01 AM

"I don't think there's any danger that we are harming these lifeforms,
Commander."

Although his words suggested a positive outcome, his faceless
gaze and tone of voice suggested there was more. Gideon wasn't even sure who
responded to him with the obviously deceptive statement. "That's certainly a
relief, Lieutenant."

"I don't think we have to worry about harming
them. I just checked the energy level on the shuttle. We're already down
to 92% of normal energy output. It seems that these lifeforms feed off energy. I
should have seen it before. The nuclear composition of these ions are all
missing one thing."

His crewmates gave the universal expression showing
they could not follow what Gideon was explaining to them. Even so, Commander
Weist politely voiced the appropriate question to invoke a continuation of
Gideon's dialogue. "What?" she said.

"According to James Callahan's
report, there are no six-proton atoms in this cloud. See here, five protons--and
here, seven! It skips six! Do you understand what this means?"

It was
clear that no one understood what Gideon was talking about and he could have
been presenting an Oceanography survey to the people of Tatooine. Lieutenant
Kerrigan replied this time. "No, Gideon! I'm sorry! We really just don't get it!
Just get to the point!"

"On the Periodic Table, the element with six
protons is carbon! Do you see, now? These are not carbon-based lifeforms! The
normal rules don't apply! These little guys consume the energy of ships that get
too close to the cloud! That's why all the stories about this place--even the
Klingons--say this nebula is haunted! These little guys eat everything
exhibiting an energy signature! And we're down to 85 per cent!"

"So what
do we need to do?" asked Commander Weist just as Lieutenant Kerrigan reported,
"We're entering the nebula now, Commander."

Gideon took a breath and
sedated his excitement. "If we're going to the Avocet, we'd better get out
quick!"

Posted by: Renee Weist Oct 15 2006, 03:39 AM

Gideon explained the new lifeforms, and once Renee thought she got a grip on
the understanding, she made a quick decision.

"If we're going to the
Avocet, we'd better get out quick!" Gideon had said, very
excitedly.

"Make it so then. Lets do what we came to do, and get our rear
ends out of here. We contact the Avocet, lock on and drag her out, if we can,
and see about life signs aboard while we are doing it," Renne
replied.

"Entering the Neubula," Sas'hela said, and the pods systems
light suddenly dimmed, as it felt like it went through a shallow force field of
some sort.

Renee recognised it as the entry into a nebula, where the
systems no longer functioned correctly with targeting, scanners, sensors, and so
on.

"Commander Darken? Gather what information you can with the decreased
sensors for data compilation. The more we know.." she said. "Lt Kerrigan? Best
speed to the Avocet."

Posted by: Tekari Oct 15 2006, 12:50 PM

As the Shuttlepod flew into the Nebula, the lights throughout had momentarily
flickered. Tekari was fast and ready for anything, while observing the
revelations at hand - most particularly, the fact that the Nebula was made up of
tiny energy thriving life-forms.

The El Aurian tapped at the
Navigational console, which also was configured for Tactical defense and
offensives. Sashela awaited course corrections from his computer, but the
systems were beginning to malfunction.

"What's the next heading?" Sashela
asked, as she was beginning to realize, from her Helm, that they had gotten as
far as they could, on course, with the previous course correction. Now they were
likely to head off-course.

Finding the Navigational at error, Tekari
began to realize that he had no answer for her. What was he to do? He then got
an idea - it was obvious, but not usually recommened. He looked out the window
and eyed the Avocet.

The ship came into view, and using his best
undersstanding of the 3D axis', he compared thier known location to that of the
Advocet on sensors. It wasn't as difficult as it would have seemed. Tekari
tapped in the next course correction, as the whole flight path became more clear
in his mind. Sashela took it and changed course - and before they knew it, they
had successfully approached the Avocet.

"Thanks," Sashela said, breaking
from any momentary frustrations.

Posted by: Reyan Caius Oct 15 2006, 05:26 PM

The Pulsar burst out of the Nebula, the coordinates that the probe had
orginated from proving to have been from outside of the Nebula itself

"Wonder what that field is keeping cloaked?" Kaio
stated, speaking out loud words that most present on the bridge were undoubtedly
thinking

Reyan ignored Kaio, and turned to Lieutenant
T'Pae

"Lieutenant - take us back into the Nebula to rendevous with the
away team - hopefully by the time we reach them they'll have finnished aboard
the Avocet - I don't intend to proceed with uncovering our little mystery here
without my senior officers aboard" Reyan advised, feeling releived as the Pulsar
turned about, on a course back toward the Nebula, the away team and the Avocet

Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Oct 16 2006, 04:52 AM

"Aye best speed." Sas replied and piloted the pod heading straight for the
Avocet. Within minutes they were within transporter range although the pod
hadn't had it's transporter tested and Sas made that clear as she pulled up
along the Avocet. "I wouldn't recommend the transporter, here we have docked,
I'm reading an atmosphere and we can use Environmental Suits. In the back
compartment." Sas pointed.

"Let's go." Sas said as she left the helm and
got one of the suits. "Quicker we get on faster we can go. The pod doesn't have
enough power to establish any data links unfortunately, shes still in progress
you understand." She had the pants of the suit on and grabbing the other suits
to give to Gideon and Tekari, "only have three, sorry Commander. Unless you
wanna go instead of me?"

Posted by: Jules Davey Oct 18 2006, 03:25 AM

Things were happening fast on the Pulsar. Jules had remained quiet,
monitoring the situation, she checked the scan results as they were fed to them,
and she kept still as the torpedo impacted against the shield. She wasn’t sure
exactly what was going on, but she did know something wasn’t right.

She
watched the workbee with the away team, but all communications and links with
them had been rendered useless due to their proximity in the nebula, she hoped
they were safe.

The atmosphere on the bridge was tense to say the least
as they headed back towards the nebula, suddenly something spiked on her
console. She wasn’t sure what, but she was picking up strange readings. She
looked at, “Captain, I just had a spike in the energy field.” She informed him,
“It came from behind the cloak.” as she watched the readings returned to
normal.

“What was it?” Reyan asked her,

“I have no idea, its all
returned to normal again.” She said, rubbing her temples, a headache starting.
“I am picking up a slightly elevated level of some kind of radiation, something
I have not seen before. Even the computer seems to be having trouble placing
it.” she frowned, watching as the computer tried to identify the new reading she
was getting.

“A new kind of radiation?” The Captain asked, looking at her
with narrowed eyes.

“Aye Sir, I have no idea what it is.” she said, her
voice slightly shaky.

Hope thats ok, bit stuck as too whats going
on..:/

Posted by: Gideon Yesterday, 01:13 AM

Gideon threw on his environmental suit and joined Tekari and Lt. Kerrigan
boarding the Avocet. What would they find on board? How many shipmates had
perhaps survived? Gideon had checked his sensors one last time before leaving
the pod. "Well, there's something alive down there," he had said in a
half-whisper, almost to himself. But what in the Milky Way could it
be?

The Commander beamed the three to the Avocet and in a twinkling,
they reappeared on a dark bridge. Even the emergency lighting had been
extinguished. Gideon wondered how long it had been since the environmental
systems had been reduced to such extremes. His sensors indicated that the oxygen
content of the near-vacuum which consumed the bridge was at less than 20% of
normal levels. CO2
had balooned to an unproportional size indicating exactly what he reported
through his commbadge.

Commander, the air inside the Avocet does indeed seem to
indicate what we had believed. Apparantly, if anyone is alive in here, he must
be asphyxiated. There are no life signs present on the Bridge. I'll continue
searching the rest of the ship.

Understood, Lieutenant. Work quickly. We don't want our
fate to be the same as the Avocet. Commander Weist Out.

Gideon
knew what the executive officer had said was obvious and redundant. He turned to
Tekari, pointing his tricorder toward a bulkhead and said, "Commander, we should
try to make our way in this direction. I'm finding something
interesting?"

Leading the group toward the turbolift, Tekari responded.
"Life, Lieutenant?"

Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Yesterday, 10:56 AM

"Interesting can wait Gideon, let's just get the database and get off the
ship. Okay?" Sas instructed, "my pod can't stand this nebula any longer so if
you wish to be stuck here I suggest we hurry." She said as the lift took them to
the Bridge. Once there the away team split up and went to different
consoles.

Sas to engineeing, Gideon to science and Tekari to tactical.
The three worked on downloading as much information as they could from their
stations from the computer core. Sas had attached a power generator device to
the console in order for it to activate. The consoles made noises as if to say
their was an emergency onboard, Sas looked at the sensor readings.

"Yep
there's your interesting Gideon." She said. "Deck four section nine and moving.
Looks like some kind of energy being." Sas commented as she waited for her
tricorder to download the database.

Posted by: Gideon Yesterday, 11:55 AM

"An energy being," responded Gideon while frantically attempting to conjur as
much data from his console as possible. "That's certainly interesting. It would
certainly merit our attention--" He stopped for just a second, then looked at
Lieutenant Kerrigan, a scowl of contempt painted elegantly upon her visage. Then
he continued his statement with: "were our situation not so dour."

He
turned back to his workstation, collecting as much data as possible. Working
through the gloves and the mask of the biosuit slowed his progress a little, but
he wiggled in enough time to scan the inhabited section of the ship, collecting
as much data on this supposed lifeform as possible. Scan now, analyze later.
We've got to get back to Lt. Kerrigan's pod.

Finally, the away team heard
the familiar voice of their commander over their Commsystem:

Commander Weist
to away team. I'm having a little instability with the magnetic polarity of your
shuttle Sashela. You'd better finish up and beam back.

Gideon
was a little frustrated. There was so much more information he could collect in
five or ten more minutes aboard the Avocet, yet he knew better than anyone the
Commander's words were true. It was best they stay safe than risk suffering the
fate of the Avocet.

In thirty seconds and without a word, the three crew
members on the Avocet lined up to be transported back to the shuttle. Tekari
spoke up with a tap on his badge:
"Commander, we're ready," he said. "Three to beam back."

Everything turned to shimmers and flashing lights. And in three point
eight seconds--or maybe it was ten--Gideon recongnized they were once again
aboard the Avocet.

"What happened?" Lt. Kerrigan voiced the words that
everyone else had been thinking.

Posted by: Sashela Kerrigan Today, 01:28 AM

Appearing again on the Avocet Sas raised an eyebrow. "Okay that's weird.
Maybe something is interfering with the pod's transporter, although I hadn't
been able to test it as of late." She confessed.

"Agreed.
I'll go to the nearest transporter room and you transfer as much power as you
can, okay? Commander Tekari, why don't you investigate some of the ship?" Sas
offered to both but in a hurried tone. She dashed to the lift and off she
went.

On her way to the transporter room, lots of dead bodies littered
the floor. Disgusted, Sas continued on and tried to refrain from looking at
them. She had one or two friends on the Avocet, although she did hear about
several transfers off the ship before it disappeared.

< Transporter
Room Two >

Walking into the transporter room she found the console
destoryed. Just great. She thought. =^= Okay this will take some time
peoples, the console is destoryed, I've got to access the platform controls.
Standby. =^= She called in the open channel via her suit.

Posted by: Fallax Trell Today, 03:19 AM

OOC: You guys
are doing a great job during this crisis, but the time has come for admin to
make a decision. Please go to the ooc area of this ship. You will find a post
starting with ATTENTION...please read it carefully and respond. We are doing
role call on this ship. The fate of this ship now rests with you. God speed
guys.

Posted by: Gideon Today, 11:57 AM

While Gideon waited, he meandered into the recognized section of the ship
where the life readings seemed to emanate. Naturally, the turbolift did not
function past deck three, so he worked his way down to deck four. Section nine
turned out to be the Avocet's science lab, much smaller than the suite Gideon
enjoyed aboard the Pulsar.

When he opened the door, a purple light glowed
brilliantly throughout the room. "Hello," he said, more to himself than anyone.
"What have we here?" As his eyes adjusted to the light, he stepped forward into
the room.

Among the bodies, Gideon observed several data padds thrown
about in the room; he picked up the ones he saw. Upon turning a corner in the
laboratory, Gideon saw that a bubble of energy had somehow been trapped in a
containment field.

Suddenly, a burst of enery shot from the bubble.
Fortunately, the energy burst appeared to be random, but he estimated it's power
could have vaporized him in exactly two point six seconds. "That was too close,"
he said, again to himself as no one else was present.

With a cursory scan
from his tricorder, Gideon discovered the bubble was a piece of the nebula,
trapped within the containment field, fighting for its freedom. On a nearby
computer console, he looked through the ship's systems to find the power output
in the science lab was unusally high. With a few touches of the computer
monitor, Gideon adjusted the levels to slightly above nill. He watched with
astonishment as the brilliant light, freed from its containment began to move
slowly about the room until it finally drifted through the bulkhead into
space.

The console glowed amber and then displayed the ship's power
systems. The first one Gideon touched was life support, then lighting, then the
transporters.

He tapped his comm badge.
Gideon to Lt.
Kerrigan. I think I may have discovered the source of the problem. I know you've
got a mess in there, Sashela, but tell me if this doesn't help you a bit.

Posted by: Tekari Today, 01:28 PM

With the additional time, Tekari was able to take in all of the ship's
Tactical information. He had turned to exploring and searching through the ship
as Sashela worked out the Transporters. Tekari's wanderings had led him to take
a ladder down to Deck 4, Section 9 - where Gideon had been examining a cluster
of purple energy.

When the Science officer freed it, Tekari walked around
the corner to show himself. He approached Gideon just as the power-release was
in place.

"Good work Lieutenant," Tekari said.

Gideon nodded, "I
think we should get out of here as soon as possible."

"Agreed," Tekari
nodded back.

It was then the glow of light passed back through the
bulkhead and into the room. Gideon saw it enter, but before he could say
anything, the same light he freed passed through the back of Tekari's suit and
into Tekari himself.

"AAUUGGHH!!" Tekari quickly fell to his knees in
pain. His entire body began to illuminate from the additional
energy.

Gideon grabbed Tekari, "Commander!" It didn't make any sense. By
all Scientific logic, Tekari should have been vapourized. The beam of energy he
encountered earlier was evidence of that.

"Ggggghhhhgghhh...." Tekari
clenched his teeth in pain, trying to focus off the searing intensity. After a
few moments he was able to take the pain and the change to his body. The feeling
lessened, but the energy remained as a part of him!

Gideon tapped his
communications panel on his suit quickly, "Gideon to Sashela! What's the status
if the Transporters?"